A CheerIER Sampling of Holiday Seasonals (And Other Delicacies)
John’s Market rocks, mainly for their beer selection. My brothers finally made it in, and that made it necessary to trudge over and get $70 bucks worth of glory. We purposely got stuff we hadn’t drank before.
From left: Santa’s Little Helper by Cascade Brewing - delicious
New Belgium Raspberry Brown Ale “Frambrozen”. Meh. Sould have known, it was fruity
Seriously Bad Elf by Ridgeway - very delicious, want more
Detonator Dopplebock - again, quite nice. You may see a pattern here
Fantome de Noel - good, certainly no complaints
Canaster Winterscotch Ale - OH YES, beer + scotch flavor = an afternoon delight
Pere Noel - another solid Belgian holiday beer
Rogue Santa’s Private Reserve Ale - Good, didn’t taste too unique, but definitely good
Rogue Yellow Snow IPA - very good, I love IPA’s though, super hoppy
Sammy Smith’s Holiday - um … good?
Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest Fresh Hop Ale - wow, make the name longer. Quite tasty, not too special though considering the lengths they went through to get hops from New Zealand.
All in all, win. If you can get your hands on any of these, outside maybe the Frambrozen, I highly recommend going for it.
On a side note, I’ll get back to IT stuff in the new year. Happy Holidays everyone!
A Cheery Sampling of Holiday Seasonals (And Other Delicacies)
As I may or may not have mentioned, I have been snowed in my parents house in Portland the past couple days. Thankfully, we went shopping before the big storm hit. I took the liberty of documenting the awesomeness that I have had the pleasure of consuming these past few days.
From left: Deschutes Jubilale Holiday Seasonal and Black Butte Porter, Stone Ruination IPA and Special Release Bitter Chocolate Oatmeal Stout, Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar, Sierra Nevada Harvest Wet Hopped Ale, Anchor Holiday Seasonal, and New Belguim 2 Below Seasonal.
Yum.
Update - Beggs ACRL + Portland Weather
First off, Portland has been interesting so far. I had planned to get up to Seattle to meet with my brother and some companies, but a nice little storm has altered those plans. About a foot of snow and an inch of ice has left me grounded at the folks house. Not that I’m complaining, we went on a beer run before it hit 
Lots of tasty seasonals for the palate. Intermittent power + awful wireless is beginning to get old however, but we should be able to get out by tomorrow.
Secondly, check out this SLIS news posting about my poster getting presented! It outlines everything you might (but probably don’t) want to know.
Linky -> Pete’s Poster
Pretty cool stuff, now my brother Chris isn’t the only one to make the SLIS news!
Headin’ West
I leave tomorrow for a nice two and a half week vacation in Portland and Seattle, then topped off by a ski trip in Salt Lake City.
I’m not sure that I will be blogging over break, so just in case, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Hopefully, my new year will be spent knee-deep in fresh Snowbird powder.
Worst case, I’ll be back blogging by the middle of January.
Cheers!
Real Quick Design Update
It took me long enough, but I finally updated the header so that its actually usable. You can click on the “Peter Hall’s Blog” image and it will take you to the blog home.
You can click on the “peterahall.net home” image and it will take you to never-never-narnia-mordor-munchkinland home.
Twitter Now Owns My Soul
As much as it pains me to say it, I gave in to Twitter, or as I prefer to call it, the diarrhea of the internet. Think of it as a shameless web-based text message interface, except you are sending it to masses of people all at once, many of which you may or may not know. Hooray! Sarcasm aside, my work over at Hanapin and PPC Hero is doing it, which has forced me to start doing it. So here I am, doing it.
If anyone else is polluting the interwebs with their mass web-based text messages, feel free to ‘follow’ (Twitter lingo … lame) me and I’ll do the same. My username is peterahall.
Only positive thing is I can use interweb chat lingo there and its totally legit. Heck they might even understand it.
For example … “Hey guys, You all should really check out this great blog post on PPC Hero. It’s useful and will help prevent you from avoiding some common mistakes”
translates to
“omghi2u O_o@this it liek totally pwns newbs gives u uberhax zomgz”
Haha I spend too much time on the internet.
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Woot, I’m Getting Presented at the ACRL Conference!
This post won’t be funny, sorry. But its really good news for me.
My poster is getting presented by my head librarian at this prestigious conference!
This poster shows the scholarly impact and promise of Indiana University biophysicist John Beggs. He is scheduled to go up for tenure in 2009. I have created this poster as a part of my Graduate Assistantship, showing his publications and their current influence based on various bibliometric measures. This poster also stresses the scholar’s strengths, highlighting the multidisciplinary nature of his work and showing that his research bridges the fields of physics with neuroscience and biophysics. This is done visually with Adobe Photoshop. Finally, the poster acknowledges the scholar’s participation in new forms of scholarly communication, including his curatorship of “neuronal avalanches” in the new, wiki-based, collaborative open access Scholarpedia.
Here’s the email I just got ->
Congratulations! Your proposal, “Depicting Faculty Impact: Visualizing Contributions to Research with Dossier Inserts,” for the ACRL 14th National Conference in Seattle, Washington, March 12-15, 2009, has been accepted!
Check it out from my portfolio here -> http://www.peterahall.net/portfolio.html#graphic
Cheers!
This Phone Rocks Your Socks …
Or does it?
Check out the website. Fair warning, it will pillage your internet connection if you are one of those users stuck with 1996 internet connection speeds. I now ask, What could possible be better than a phone with a universal translator, coffee maker, razor, huge projector, and harmonica? Well, I guess a lot of things. But still, pretty intriguing. Plus, it takes advantage of the eat-healthy-green-teepee-flower farm trends that are so prevalent today with the delicious nectar of a pomegranate. I think it should have added the functionality of a ninja star, but hey, what can ya do.
Lastly, I ask you, what does this phone have to do with Nova Scotia? Get your sleuth on.
